Задание 1 Прочитайте приведенный ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами после номеров 1 6

Прочитайте приведенный ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами после номеров 1 – 6 , так чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы 1 – 6 .

Australia is an island continent and the world’s sixth largest country. The continent and the island of Tasmania, off its 1__________________ coast, make up the Commonwealth of Australia.

Australia is a federation of six states and two territories. The largest State, Western Australia, is about the same size as Western Europe.

The country has a 2__________________ system of administration modeled on the British one, and the state and federal structures are broadly similar.

Australia’s system of administration is based on the liberal democratic tradition.

Australia is a 3__________________ and still a member of the Commonwealth of Nations,

but although Britain’s king or queen is the Australian Head of State, Australia is 4__________________ autonomous.

The British sovereign is represented by the governor-general and state governors, whose 5__________________ for the post is ratified by the monarch of the day.

Ministers of the 6__________________ are elected for a maximum of three years.

Voting is by secret ballot and is compulsory for persons 18 years of age and over.

Критерии оценивания задания 1

There are 53 member states in the Commonwealth of Nations. One of them, Grenada is a self-governed 1__________________ state in the Windward Islands, West Indies.

The state includes the island of Grenada and the 2__________________ half of the archipelago, known as the Grenadines.

It is a group of largely uninhabited small islands and islets north of Grenada in the Windward Islands, 3__________________ for their deserted landscapes.

Grenada is a mountainous island of volcanic origin with crater lakes and 4__________________ rich soil. Like most Caribbean islands it is subject to hurricanes.

The capital city is also the main port and 5__________________ center which is known to be the most picturesque city in the Caribbean.

Grenada is sometimes called “spice island” as its economy is primarily agricultural and pepper, ginger and many other spices are exported. Another important industry is 6__________________, but it is just developing.

Критерии оценивания задания 2

Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами 1 – 6 , так чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы 1 – 6 .

Arbor Day and Earth Day

The first Arbor Day took place in April, 1872 in Nebraska. It was the brainchild of Julius Sterling Morton (1832-1902), a Nebraska journalist and 1__________________ originally from Michigan.

When he became a member of Nebraska's state board of agriculture, he proposed that a special day be set aside dedicated to tree planting and increasing 2__________________ of the importance of trees. Nebraska's first Arbor Day was an amazing success. More than one million trees were planted.

On April 22, 1970, Arbor Day 3__________________ were modified to emphasize the critical importance of the environment.

It was a time when cities were buried under their own smog and polluted rivers caught fire. Earth Day was created to remind people of their 4__________________ to protect the planet.

Now Earth Day is celebrated 5__________________ around the globe.

What started as a day of national environmental recognition has evolved into a worldwide campaign to protect our 6__________________ environment.

Критерии оценивания задания 3

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски 1 – 6 частями предложений, обозначенными буквами A – G . Одна из частей в списке А – G лишняя. Занесите букву, обозначающую соответствующую часть предложения, в таблицу.

Elephants sense 'danger' clothes

St Andrews University researchers discovered that elephants could recognise the degree of danger posed by various groups of individuals.

The study found that African elephants always reacted with fear 1 _______________________ previously worn by men of the Maasai tribe. They are known to demonstrate their courage by 2 _______________________ .

The elephants also responded aggressively to red clothing, which defines traditional Maasai dress.

However, the elephants showed a much milder reaction to clothing previously worn by the Kamba people, 3 _______________________ and pose little threat.

The researchers first presented elephants with clean, red clothing and with red clothing that had been worn for five days by 4 _______________________ .

They revealed that Maasai-smelt clothing motivated elephants to travel significantly faster in the first minute after they moved away.

They then investigated whether elephants could also use the colour of clothing as a cue to classify a potential threat and found the elephants reacted with aggression 5 _______________________ . This suggested that they associated the colour red with the Maasai.

The researchers believe the distinction in the elephants' emotional reaction to smell and colour might be explained by 6 _______________________ . They might be able to distinguish among different human groups according to the level of risk they posed.

"We regard this experiment as just a start to investigating precisely how elephants 'see the world', and it may be that their abilities will turn out to equal or exceed those of our closer relatives, the monkeys and apes," researchers added.

either a Maasai or a Kamba man

who do not hunt elephants

when they detected the smell of clothes

who carried out the research

the amount of risk they sense

when they spotted red but not white cloth

Culture and customs

In less than twenty years, the mobile telephone has gone from being rare, expensive equipment of the business elite to a pervasive, low-cost personal item. In many countries, mobile telephones 1 _______________________ ; in the U.S., 50 per cent of children have mobile telephones. In many young adults’ households it has supplanted the land-line telephone. The mobile phone is 2 _______________________ , such as North Korea.

Paul Levinson in his 2004 book Cellphone argues that by looking back through history we can find many precursors to the idea of people simultaneously walking and talking on a mobile phone. Mobile phones are the next extension in portable media, that now can be 3 _______________________ into one device. Levinson highlights that as the only mammal to use only two out of our four limbs to walk, we are left two hands free 4 _______________________ - like talking on a mobile phone. Levinson writes that “Intelligence and inventiveness, applied to our need to communicate regardless of where we may be, led logically and eventually to telephones that we 5 _______________________ .”

Given the high levels of societal mobile telephone service penetration, it is a key means for people 6 _______________________ . The SMS feature spawned the "texting" sub-culture. In December 1993, the first person-to-person SMS text message was transmitted in Finland. Currently, texting is the most widely-used data service; 1.8 billion users generated $80 billion of revenue in 2006.

to perform other actions

outnumber traditional telephones

to communicate with each other

combined with the Internet

to serve basic needs

banned in some countries

carry in our pockets

Football in England

Football is the national sport of England, and as such has an important place within English national life. The sport is almost always 1 _______________________ ; it is unusual for it to be called soccer and it is only referred to as "association football" in very limited circumstances. Any unqualified reference to football in an English context should be read as a reference to association football rather than to any other member of the football family of sports. The only other members of this family 2 _______________________ belong to the rugby football sub-family, and 3 _______________________ . The title and remainder of this article refers to football in its English sense.

Kicking ball games 4 _______________________ since at least 1280. England can boast the earliest ever documented use of the English word "football" (1409) and the earliest reference to football in French (1314). A description of an exclusively kicking ball game from Nottinghamshire in the fifteenth century bears similarity to football. There is good evidence for refereed, team "foteball" games being 5 _______________________ since at least 1581.

The modern global game of football was first codified in 1863 in London by the English Football Association, the oldest football association in the world. England is home 6 _______________________ in the world, the world's oldest competition (the FA Cup founded in 1871) and the first ever football league (1888). For these reasons England is considered the home of the game of football.

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